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♪ O'er the land of the free ♪
(crowd cheering)
♪ And the home of the brave! ♪
(crowd cheering, whistling, applauding)
WOMAN: ♪ If only you knew ♪
♪ Our lives ♪
♪ My world ♪
They would call me ***, stupid,
and gay and loser, all the time.
Someone told me that if there
was ever an exception for suicide, I would be it.
Um, they used to call me fat, fatsy...
and, like, lose some weight.
I became teased about my looks, my brains and just being me.
They took their lighter and they're like,
"Burn the Jew! Burn the Jew!"
"***."
WOMAN: ♪ Maybe you would understand ♪
♪ How cruel the things they do... ♪
As a bystander, we have a choice.
To look away as he did,
afraid of confrontation
or to become a participant--
I chose to make a difference.
♪ Sometimes a friend is a stranger... ♪
♪ To tell your problems to... ♪
And this was taken
on the first day of school,
when she was going
into the eighth grade.
And she committed suicide
just two months later.
If bullying is learned, it also means you can turn it around.
We can turn it around at every age.
But the worst thing I hear is:
"It's a phase and he'll outgrow it!"
It's not a phase.
I don't want to lose a child
because people are cruel
and parents breed cruelty into children.
And we need to stop the cruelty and the hate.
The damage that parents do, unwittingly, to their children
would shock and horrify them, I think, if they could see.
And some of the parents are, like,
"Kids, I need you to watch this."
"No, you need to watch this."
(laughs quietly)
You know, it's for them.
It's not that easy to just walk up to a teacher
and tell them you're being bullied, you know?
WOMEN (harmonizing): ♪ 'Cause being different ♪
♪ Isn't easy ♪
♪ When everything goes wrong ♪
♪ And I don't belong ♪
♪ So I go home ♪
♪ And I scream at walls... ♪
We're all accountable.